siren
Example Sentences
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“We just drop everything whenever there is an air raid siren,” said Nina Zabela, the head of Lozova railway station, where she has worked for the past 32 years.
Even as Chinatown’s energy has ebbed and flowed, food has been a steady siren song.
As he continued to speak, air-raid sirens blared in the background.
From Los Angeles Times
As helicopters circled overhead, sirens descended on her suburb, and people ran screaming down her street on 14 December, Mary felt a grim sense of deja vu.
From BBC
Not literally — unless you, too, are vulnerable to the siren song of pressed bread — but by staying open to a new-to-you tool that might gently reroute how you cook, even in a small way.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
